20 actors who've admitted to the weirdest kinks

Lady Gaga in 911 | Image Source: Lady Gaga via YouTube
Lady Gaga in 911 | Image Source: Lady Gaga via YouTube

The flash and glitz of Tinseltown often camouflage the complexities of private lives, but certain actors are frank and not afraid to speak of their unusual kinks and intimate preferences. Doing so deepens the actors' public image and, concurrently, reflects the complexity of human sexuality. We list actors who have admitted to weird kinks by breaking the norms and embracing desires, often as a means to normalize discussion around sexual exploration within media.

1. Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie in Changeling | Image Source: Jio Cinema (Universal Pictures)
Angelina Jolie in Changeling | Image Source: Jio Cinema (Universal Pictures)

Angelina Jolie has been known to break the mold in her professional career and her private life. She reportedly carries a vial of her husband's (Billy Bob Thornton) blood around her neck. She believes the vial is a sign of the very strong bond between them. She has also claimed to look for other ways of intimacy outside of their marriage, including "cutting" for love and passion.

2. Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin in She Bangs | Image Source: Ricky Martin via YouTube
Ricky Martin in She Bangs | Image Source: Ricky Martin via YouTube

In a podcast interview, discussing his sensual rhythms and charming stage performance, Ricky Martin also talked about other private matters. He openly said that he enjoyed golden showers, which is an interest many may call strange. While discussing this, Martin revealed comfort in discovering multiple intimate forms of expressions against the mainstream patterns forming relationships and sexuality.

3. Evan Rachel Wood

Evan Rachel Wood in Barefoot | Image Source: Prime Video (Roadside Attractions)
Evan Rachel Wood in Barefoot | Image Source: Prime Video (Roadside Attractions)

Evan Rachel Wood also publicly delineated her role within the Bondage world—identifying specifically as a sub, exploring the role of submission in her relationships, and how that also seems to help empower her profoundly. An outspoken icon in the discourse on the positive value of Bondage and the role of consent, Evan Rachel Wood works actively to remove the stigma surrounding those practices.

4. Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson in Coma White | Image Source: Marilyn Manson via YouTube
Marilyn Manson in Coma White | Image Source: Marilyn Manson via YouTube

The kink culture fascination would define aspects of Marilyn Manson's shock-rocker and provocateur character. He has made clear his obsession with bondage and dark elements of style repeatedly through his stage shows and video musicals. His interest in fetishistic sexual behavior isn't a matter of show; Manson revealed such activity exists in his private life as well.

5. Megan Fox

Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body | Image Source: Prime Video (20th Century Fox)
Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body | Image Source: Prime Video (20th Century Fox)

Megan Fox has also mentioned the role-play that plays a great deal in her relationships, sometimes in the manner of costumes and even more often in themed scenarios to keep it interesting. Besides that, she's honest about her adventurous nature and willingness to explore different facets of intimacy. The openness regarding using role-play adds depth to Fox's persona, which is very often not based on the traditional Hollywood beauty standard.

6. David Duchovny

David Duchovny in Californication | Image Source: Prime Video (Showtime Networks)
David Duchovny in Californication | Image Source: Prime Video (Showtime Networks)

General talk of sex addiction problems by David Duchovny was what people talked about after rehab and started talking about their lives of fawns and weird sexual practices. He even opened up that he once had a problem with it, talking about overcoming addiction to relationships. He is laudable because he spoke of it head-on and got help for the condition nobody knows about.

The experiences of Duchovny should remind everyone that celebrities, too, have to face struggles along with other humans. His honesty may prevent others suffering from similar conditions from taking treatment and discussing their experiences openly without shame.

7. Will Smith

Will Smith in Men in Black | Image Source: Netflix (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Will Smith in Men in Black | Image Source: Netflix (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, were not ashamed of the so-called adventurous intimacy in their marriage. The couple would talk about not having a traditional marriage: they discussed their open marriage, a kind of unconventional approach that they would discuss, admitting even further sex exploration.

In her Red Table Talk series, Jada Pinkett and her husband, Will, shared their struggles as a couple, even bringing up non-conventional experiences that transcended the more traditional levels. In this regard, though they have not made known what they explore, it is easy to observe that they have embraced a dynamic that offers them room for flexibility and experimentation in their intimate lives to challenge the norms of monogamy and marriage.

8. Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga in Always Remember Us This Way | Image Source: Lady Gaga via YouTube
Lady Gaga in Always Remember Us This Way | Image Source: Lady Gaga via YouTube

Known for pushing boundaries in style, this also extends into Lady Gaga's personal life. She has said that she enjoys a variety of kinks, including bondage and role play, and explained herself to be game to anything for intimacy. This interest of Gaga in kink expresses her overall philosophy: embracing uniqueness and defying the norms of the rest. This makes people generally relax their preference expectations and pull away from more conservative connotations.

9. Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door | Image Source: Prime Video (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door | Image Source: Prime Video (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Tilda Swinton takes her strange life from the realm of one's profession and into the life of her love. She has said so candidly regarding her acceptance of non-traditional relationship structures, including that of polyamory, which finds a flexible view of love and sexuality. Swinton's stance deviates from mainstream, monogamous representations of relationships and provides a perspective that people interact meaningfully in various structures.

10. Jada Pinkett Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith in A Low Down Dirty Shame | Image Source: Prime Video (Buena Vista Pictures Distribution)
Jada Pinkett Smith in A Low Down Dirty Shame | Image Source: Prime Video (Buena Vista Pictures Distribution)

Jada Pinkett Smith has been very candid about the work that keeps it interesting for her in marriage - from role-play to other means of intimacy that may not be the norm. She talks about how she and her husband, Will Smith, keep an open dialogue about their needs and how that includes dancing with fantasies and trying new things to keep that bond between them alive.

Just as an open discussion among couples can really make a difference in keeping that spark alive in the relationship, Pinkett Smith's openness about her private life here informs how couples can be proactive to keep their intimacy alive.

11. Russell Brand

Russell Brand in Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Image Source: Prime Video (Universal Pictures)
Russell Brand in Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Image Source: Prime Video (Universal Pictures)

Russell Brand is known to speak about his sex life from a very young age and publicly professed to be bound by a range of fetishes. The comedian and actor has made public confessions regarding his sex addiction and unique encounters during his lifetime.

Brand brings his views on self-awareness and spirituality to the fore; thus, he has discussed personal struggles with addiction as it relates to sexuality. He lets out all the transparency of these subjects while challenging the notion of what is considered "normal" and while pushing home that one should love one's authentic self but at the same time get help when one's behavior becomes detrimental.

12. Cara Delevingne

Cara Delevingne in Paper Towns | Image Source: Prime Video (20th Century Fox)
Cara Delevingne in Paper Towns | Image Source: Prime Video (20th Century Fox)

The actress/model Cara Delevingne has talked about bondage and role-playing as something she also liked to do, where she would go for different power scenarios with her boyfriends. Publicizing the actress's interest in such activities only strengthens her general persona of being a boundary-pusher and a norm-breaker. Because of her candid description of intimate life, Delevingne promotes the knowledge of more bondage practices and invites others to explore their fantasies.

13. Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. in Spider-Man: Homecoming | Image Source: Jio Cinema (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Robert Downey Jr. in Spider-Man: Homecoming | Image Source: Jio Cinema (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Robert Downey Jr. never shies away from speaking about the crazy times he had, such as his open-mindedness toward various sexual practices. He tells the truth about how he experimented when he was younger—all part of a broader journey to find sobriety and transform a life involving bad habits and vices. Today, Downey Jr. leads a much healthier lifestyle, while the crazy times earlier in life remain in his past.

14. Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf in Disturbia | Image Source: Netflix (Paramount Pictures)
Shia LaBeouf in Disturbia | Image Source: Netflix (Paramount Pictures)

Shia LaBeouf is known for his performances and lifestyle, which are not very conventionally mundane, and his sexual preferences are no exception. He claims to have tried quite a few things in the bedrooms, mirroring the artistic freedom he exhibits in his career. The openness of LaBeouf towards trying different experiences portrays him as a risk-taker who steps outside the boundaries of what society would consider conventional.

15. Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart in Twilight | Image Source: Netflix (Summit Entertainment)
Kristen Stewart in Twilight | Image Source: Netflix (Summit Entertainment)

Kristen Stewart has often seemed to suggest that she has an appetite for rough intimacy in interviews and even hinted at a preference for intensity and spontaneity in her sex life. Open and often brutally candid, Stewart's openness about "unusual" preferences fits the overall pattern of her conduct to buck Hollywood trends. While she doesn't say she has enjoyed rougher forms of intimacy, her acknowledgment helps throw light on the fact that kinks are not uncommon.

16) Madonna

Madonna in Don't Tell Me | Image Source: Madonna via YouTube
Madonna in Don't Tell Me | Image Source: Madonna via YouTube

Many might call her the "Queen of Pop," as well as an iconoclastic cultural provocateur for boundary-pushing artistry and unapologetic views of sexuality. Over her career and work spanning years, she has followed a style of embracing in the open various kinks and sexual practices.

Through interviews, she has sensibly spoken candidly about the scope of asexual explorations and the varieties of sexual experiences she is interested in. She also speaks to a progressive attitude toward desire that makes many fans sympathize with what she is trying to say.

17. Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men | Image via Prime Video
Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men | Image via Prime Video

Charlie Sheen, a man of infamous lifestyle and expression of outpouring confession over love for adult entertainment, exercises the right to celebrate excess and nonconformity. Controversies apart, Sheen's candor in talking about exploring sexual intercourse in all its phases is an addition to his celebrity persona, who lives life as he pleases. In doing so, he breaks that divide between public and private personas to share a glimpse into the realities on one side of Hollywood—full of gold dust—all while illuminating the intricacies of human desire.

18. Gerard Butler

Gerard Butler in A Family Man | Image Source: Prime Video ( Vertical Entertainment)
Gerard Butler in A Family Man | Image Source: Prime Video ( Vertical Entertainment)

It is not just Gerard Butler's rugged looks or versatility in acting skills that the world has come to associate him with, but also his candidness about his adventurous approach to relationships and intimacy. Nowhere does he specify kinks that he likes, but Butler did give hints of nothing less than weird or even uncomfortable intimate experiences, all the while open in willing exploration beyond precise boundaries.

The very bold approach Butler takes in love and intimacy speaks of the cultural acceptability of experiences of sexuality that are less ordinary, daring his fans to be radical and open-minded without worrying about regret in the exploration of their desires.

19. Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson in Pamela: A Love Story | Image Source: Netflix (Netflix)
Pamela Anderson in Pamela: A Love Story | Image Source: Netflix (Netflix)

Pamela Anderson, for example, said that she would have attempted almost everything sexual, such as a threesome and other extreme acts. Being a former Playboy model, Pamela has always been linked with freedom, and her openness about what she enjoys further enhances this image. An article by Anderson regarding intimate life encourages openness about what individuals desire and what, to them, will satisfy their desires.

20. Fifty Cent

Fifty Cent in Just A Lil Bit | Image Source: 50 Cent via YouTube
Fifty Cent in Just A Lil Bit | Image Source: 50 Cent via YouTube

Rapper and actor 50 Cent has been very vocal about his preferences. For example, he admitted candidly to playing around with experimental forms of intimacy, confessing to liking situations in which their role was reversed, and the female partners controlled the situation, fitting into a non-traditional gender role. Not typically serious about his sexual preferences, it can be seen that he is certainly not shying away from the circumstances in terms of plays of power.

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Edited by Sarah Nazamuddin Harniswala